On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Uvindu Silva <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I believe the BBB can get much much faster if we could use the GPU. I am > a > > beginer but I guess that is a logical statement as unnecessary CPU load > is > > reduced. > > Just so that we are all on the same page, it would be neat if we could offload graphics processing (and maybe other types of processing) to the GPU. This is actually a trend now in x86 world, with both AMD, Nvidia and Intel making multiple cores available for graphics and general processing, Larabee style.
Unfortunately, in the ARM world the GPUs tend to be more proprietary. On BBB, the PowerVR SGX530 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_5> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard#cite_note-32> GPU was licensed by TI from Imagination Tech, apparently under some sort of NDA that prevents TI from publishing the details of this hardware. TI's only allowed to release a binary driver, that iwould require creating its own infrastructure to work on BBB, and there's not enough interest in keeping up that work. What people would be interested in would be an open source driver, but IT and TI will not release information required for that, so there is no progress. If you are interested in changing that, you could try to convince TI/IT to release information, and/or reverse engineer their driver. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
